On 2023-12-11 15:16:57 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 02:58:01PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I do not care about the "microsoft world", and I doubt that this is > > required there at the low level (what would be the equivalent of the > > Linux kernel) [...] > > This depends: the FAT file system (which still is the lowest common > denominator) actually reserves 8 chars for the file name and three > for the --ahem-- extension. The dot isn't encoded explicitly on-disk.
This is unrelated to the OS. The FAT file system may be used also under Linux (e.g. because this is what some memory sticks have), and there are the same limitations. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
